Ecommittee Newsletter November 2020
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November 2020 Newsletter e-Committee, Supreme Court of India NORTH EAST GETS THE FIRST VIRTUAL COURT AT ASSAM. The 1st Virtual Court of North-East august presence of Hon’ble Dr India was inaugurated for the State Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, Judge – of Assam, on 12th November 2020, cum- Chairperson, e-Committee, by Hon’ble Chief Minister of Assam, Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Mr Sri Sarbananda Sonowal in the Justice Hrishikesh Roy, Judge, e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 2 Supreme Court of India, Hon’ble Mr thus freeing up judicial manpower for Justice N. Kotiswar Singh, Chief essential judicial functions. Justice (Acting), Gauhati High Court, In this regard, Gauhati High Court, Hon’ble Chief Justices & Judges of under the aegis of the e-Committee, Various High Courts. Mr Barun Mitra the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, Secretary, Department of Justice, Mr has taken up the project of the Justice R.C. Chavan, Vice- setting of Virtual Courts for traffic Chairperson, e-Committee, violations. Gauhati High Court has Supreme Court of India, Dr Neeta taken a proactive role in Verma, Director General, National implementing e-Challan by the State Informatics Centre, Government of Police for enabling the Virtual India, CPCs of Various High Courts, Courts. District Administrations, Police The High Court’s e-Courts Division Officials under the Jurisdiction of the made a presentation on the Gauhati High Court joined the implemented e-Challans for the function virtually. Police Authorities and the ease of Virtual courts provide a convenient services offered by the Virtual Courts option for citizens to pay traffic fines for the Citizens. As of 15th online, resulting in an efficient and December 2020, 197 cases seamless method of dealing with received, and the proceeding traffic challan. With virtual courts, completed for all 197 cases and a one/few officers can handle fine of Rs. 7401.00 collected by the numerous Judicial Officers’ work, new Virtual court of Assam. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 3 Rjasthan High Court Floats Four Paperless Courts developed an in-house peripheral On 02.11.2020, Rajasthan High Court module for the paperless Court under taking a giant stride towards the High Court Steering Committee's digitalization and paperless guidance. The periphery software functioning of Courts started four provides separate sub-modules/logins paperless courts at the High Court for Hon'ble Judges, Court Masters, level, i.e. two at Jodhpur & Jaipur for Registry Officers, Section In-charge, hearing bail matters. The Computer dealing clerks, Scanning Agency etc., Cell of the Rajasthan High Court with facilities and functionalities the e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 4 individual requirements for Similarly, Court Masters are provided management and use of the paperless with access to the soft copy of files Module. Under this paperless Module, from their logins. Dealing Clerks can all the newly filed bail matters and insert, append and bookmark the documents are scanned and digitized newly filed documents or newly at the filing counter. A detailed and generated pages and automatically exhaustive bookmarking is done place them according to index and before uploading the PDF files in pagination through their logins. They DMS. Registry Officers, Section in- can also perform the task of tagging charges and Scanning Agency can similar files. supervise and manage the entire process through specialized sub- modules /logins. Cause-List Programme is linked with the paperless Module, and the files are automatically arranged as per cause list. Hon'ble Judges can access the soft copy of files listed in cause list through their dedicated logins from anywhere, including the courtroom, residence office, and chambers. Facilities to save encrypted notes are also provided for judges. A facility for viewing all the connected/tagged matters alongside the main file is also available. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 5 Madhya Pradesh High Court Digitises 29 Crore Pages Till November 2020. Digitization of High Court: Courts in Madhya Pradesh. In the remaining District and Tehsil Courts, the As a prelude to the Paperless Court of digitization work is to be started shortly. eCourts, the Scanning / Digitization work is going on full swing in Madhya Pradesh Approximately 1,26,558 files and High Court. Digitization of approximately 1,01,51,565 pages have been scanned 39.19 Lakh files comprising of 15.63 from 1 November 2020 to 30 November Crore pages has been completed till 2020. November 2020. About 17,931 files and 6,07,816 pages have been scanned during the period of 1 November 2020 to Digitization for e-library: 30 November 2020 As part of moving towards e-library, the Digitization of 9,229 Law books comprising about 58.04 Lakh pages was Digitization of 34 District Courts.: also completed. Digitization of approximately 14 Crore pages has been completed at 34 District Cyber Security Compliance & Etiquettes"-Course Conducted online mode for capacity building and Madhya Pradesh High Court conducted awareness Training for all Master 90 hours course on "Cyber Security Trainers/ DSA / SA, officials of IT wing of Compliance and Etiquettes" through Madhya Pradesh. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 6 Madras High Court Develops Norms/Units Software. Magistrate (Civil Judge Division) cadre from October 2020. Features inbuilt in the Software: The Module comprises three Logins, namely, Norms Court Login, Unit Head Login and High Court Section Login. The Module captures the details of viz., Judge/Court, Judge Period, Norms fixed for that Court, Number of days spent on As part of the periphery software Boycott, Nature and Year wise development for CIS, under the disposal of cases, and the Institution Madras High Court Computer and Actual pendency of the Court. A Committee's guidance, the In-house Report with the above particulars Software Team of the Madras High will facilitate the Unit Head to Court has developed Norms endorse his or her remarks. The Software for auto calculation of work High Court Section could view the done by the Subordinate Judicial Report along with Unit Head Officers from the CIS Software Remarks, and the same could be database. The Software has been placed before the Hon'ble Judges successfully launched initially for the for apprising the Officer's Judicial Magistrate/Metropolitan performance. The User Manual also circulated for easy guidance. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 7 NAWADA, BIHAR GETS STUDIO BASED VIRTUAL COURT ROOMS On 4 November 2020, two studio- come as a boon for the lawyers who based virtual courtrooms were earlier used to participate in VC court inaugurated in Nawada Civil Court, hearings through their mobile phones under Patna High Court's aegis, by and were dependent on weak internet the District & Sessions Judge. It has connectivity. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 8 ECT 013-2020- Country wide Court Staffs Training . The 4th phase of the e-Committee second batch of 23,250 staff was trained Online Training programme (ECT 013- by 465 TOT DSA (District System 2020) for the court staff on the topic "e- Administrator) Trainer across the Courts Services and CIS 3.2" aims to country. The online feedback received train at least one court staff from each from ECT-13_2020 showed an Court across the country, was held from encouraging 88 % of the staff are feeling 23.11.2020 to 27.11.2020. This training confident after the training programme. e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 9 ECT 015 Workshop for High Court Technical person Records 100% Confident Feedback ECT -015 -website workshop for the with 100% were confident to handle High court technical staff on the website after the training, 26.7 % uploading content in the new e- rated the training as Outstanding, Committee website https:// 66.7 % rated the training as Good and ecommitteesci.gov.in held on 6.6 % satisfactory. 04.11.2020 recorded feedback rating e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 10 e-Courts Project Statistics: Number of cases dealt through Video Conferencing in High Courts/District Courts during the Lock-down as on 30-11-2020 S.No High Court Period High District Total Court Court 1 Allahabad 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 90476 587211 677687 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 2 Andhra Pradesh 26.03.2020 to 01.12.2020 HC 94927 174013 268940 25.03.2020 to 01.12.2020 DC 3 Bombay 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 60038 57907 117945 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 4 Calcutta 01.04.2020 to 15.09.2020 HC 11353 16559 27912 25.03.2020 to 15.09.2020 DC 5 Chhattisgarh 30.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 39883 16617 56500 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 6 Delhi 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 61131 926616 987747 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 7 Gauhati 24.03.2020 to 20.04.2020 HC 564 1916 2480 (Arunachal 24.03.2020 to 20.04.2020 DC Pradesh) 8 Gauhati 26.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 1542 106040 107582 (Assam) 26.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 9 Gauhati 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 1649 8720 10369 (Mizoram) 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 10 Gauhati 25.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 1446 1677 3123 (Nagaland) 25.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 11 Gujarat 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 50213 77593 127806 15.04.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 12 Himachal 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 39995 14509 54504 Pradesh 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 13 Jammu & 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 82112 107115 189227 Kashmir 23.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC e-Committee Newsletter, November 2020 11 14 Jharkhand 25.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 44371 317148 361519 25.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 DC 15 Karnataka 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020 HC 103576 62610 166186 24.03.2020 to 30.11.2020